Tag Archives: thought

XMind is currently the most popular, user-friendly mind mapping & brain storming software from Hong Kong in China. It was written in Java (cross-platform), based on the most advanced Eclipse RCP architecture (thematic structure as plug-in, supports flexible add-ons extension).

Following the popularity of The Law of 10,000 Hours (The 10,000 Hour Rule), people started to be more and more interested about how to master a skill attaining the state of art. Mastery is an extremely profound booklet about this topic written by George Leonard in 1992.

If want to thoroughly understand something, you have to learn its history first. How did it start? How to develop? How to become what it is today? In the end, it may be traced to a certain philosophy that adapts to various backgrounds in that era. Like guys learning art have to study the art history, similarly, in order to searchingly study programming, understand a computer language in-depth, we should go to learn how one language grew out of nothing.

Thinking in Java is known as the bible in Java programming, which is worth reading over and over again, even if you’re not a Java programmer. It is not hard to see this is a classic work from the various rewards it got and earnest reviews from book readers all over the world. Here you can get its 4th Edition (1057 pages).

FreeMind is a set of practical open-source mind mapping/mental (MindMap) software, written in Java. It can be used to help you organize thoughts, represent its every aspect with graphics. Through the graphical, structured thinking, to help you understand the whole process.